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Labor
Viewpoint
Trump to Coal Miners: Drop Dead
The administration keeps delaying a life-saving safety rule—while claiming to love coal miners.
Kim Kelly
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Viewpoint
Politics
Why Does the New York Times Keep Ignoring Polls Showing Mamdani Leading with Jewish Voters?
Polling shows mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani in a commanding lead with Jewish New Yorkers, but you won’t read about it in the paper of record.
Adam Johnson
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Viewpoint
Palestine
Politics
How Zohran Mamdani Achieved Escape Velocity from Politics as Usual
An optimistic, disciplined Left can draw centrists into the coalition—by rejecting their politics.
Dania Rajendra and Rebecca Vilkomerson
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Comics
"Oh, Are You AI Shaming Me?"
August comics—including an exclusive from Bianca Xunise—curated by ITT Comics Editor Matt Bors
Mattie Lubchansky, Bianca Xunise, Jen Sorensen, Ruben Bolling and peter kuper
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Labor
Why the Canadian Flight Attendants’ Strike Was “A Perfect Storm” for Labor
The government’s “eyebrow-raising” penchant for breaking up strikes met its match in the woman-dominated workforce
Emma Arkell
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Viewpoint
New Orleans’ History Is America’s History, and Katrina Is America’s Possible Future
The disaster that struck the Gulf Coast 20 years ago was not an aberration but a product of U.S. history.
Andy Horowitz
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Viewpoint
Politics
An Authoritarian Dress Rehearsal
The spectacle of Trump’s Washington takeover may be fascist pageantry, but it’s also something more.
Alberto Toscano
8
Feature
"If I Must Die," A Poem by Refaat Alareer
A poem written before the author's death in an airstrike by the Israeli military.
Refaat Alareer
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Labor
Viewpoint
The Labor Movement Is in a Fight for Its Existence Against a Neofascist Threat
For unions to survive, they must embrace antifascism.
Bill Fletcher, Jr.
10
Labor
Dispatch from the Employer Offensive: Mauser Teamsters Strike Back
Teamsters across the nation are striking to support Chicago factory workers' fight for better wages, working conditions and immigration protections.
Luis Feliz Leon
11
Interview
Culture
Comics
Cartoonists Band Together for Palestine
A new anthology brings more than 60 artists together to dream of a free Palestine.
Daniel Lukes
12
Viewpoint
Politics
Fighting Fascism Through Solidarity
Fascism depends on scapegoating, isolation and fear. Embracing the concept that “an injury to one is an injury to all” is an essential tool to fight back.
Naomi Braine
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Feature
The Most Hated Woman on the Internet
Haters--myself included--have pummeled Amanda Palmer so far beyond recognition that it’s disconcerting to hear her actual voice in her new memoir, The Art of Asking.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
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How a “Plan 2028” Could Bring Labor and Social Movements Together
Mass strikes? Escalating disruptions? The call for unified action on May 2028 presents real opportunity if we start now.
Stephanie Luce
15
Cover Story
Investigation
Goodman Institute
The Young Miners Dying of “An Old Man’s Disease”
Black lung is completely preventable. And it's on the rise again.
Kim Kelly
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How Spotify Is Quietly Supporting the Military-Industrial Complex
Unbeknownst to most users, Spotify has a secret endeavor—backing the efforts of war.
Jennifer Stavros
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Labor
A West Virginia Coal Miner Just Saved NIOSH’s Black Lung Program
A federal judge ordered the restoration of jobs in the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety’s Respiratory Health Division after a veteran coal miner filed a class action lawsuit arguing that the mass firings would lead to irreparable harm.
Kim Kelly
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Viewpoint
Cover Story
Zohran Mamdani, Black Voters and the Left
Looked at closely, Mamdani’s campaign shows the crucial role—and potential—of Black voters in America’s insurgent left political coalition.
Asha Ransby-Sporn
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Labor
Immigrant Subway Cleaners in New York Win Millions
The victory surrounds back wages and the dangerous work cleaners undertook during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Luis Feliz Leon
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Viewpoint
Election 2024
Democratic Elites Blame Everyone But Themselves for Historic Collapse
On the blame list: transgender people, “economic headwinds,” ontologically racist voters—anyone but the powerful people tasked with defeating Trump.
Adam Johnson
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Culture
The Socialism Issue
Meet the Left YouTubers Blowing Up the Alt-Right Pipeline
The Right has flooded the internet with misinformation. The content creators of BreadTube are doing something about it.
Armand D. Jackson, Ivonne Ortiz and Xuandi Wang
22
Labor
This Labor Day, Let’s Remember Labor’s Forgotten Fight—Shorter Hours and Control Over Work Time
We’re working more for less. Instead, we should fight to work less for more.
Jamie K. McCallum
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Dispatch
Environmentalists and Community Members Band Together Against Buc-ee's
The Texas mega-chain is looking to expand across the nation, polluting air and water, crowding small town streets, and paving over cultural sites.
Lewis Raven Wallace
24
Feature
Housing
Mobile Home Mobilization
How trailer park residents are banding together against the speculative real estate market.
Eleni Schirmer
25
Housing
Inside the Right’s War on the Homeless
How one Trumpist tech mogul pushed a crackdown on the unhoused all the way to the Supreme Court.
Rebecca Burns
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Culture
New Music from Anti-Fascist Folk Singer Woody Guthrie Released
With this reveal of 22 previously unheard songs, the Guthrie family hopes the radical messages in “Woody At Home” will inspire the next generation of protest songwriters.
Caroleine James
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